On 08/20/2010 10:39 PM, Myles Watson wrote:
Attached is a cleaned-up patch. Thanks to Myles and others for excellent help and support. I hope someone finds the result useful.
Rev 5723.
Thanks for contributing! Myles
Hi. One year after contributing the port to HP DL145 G1 motherboard code I decided to see if I could improve it a little. However, now I can't make it work. I still have my compiled rom image from August 2010 (and it works fine) but when I try to compile a new image I get all kinds of problems.
First I checked out and compiled the latest git-version of coreboot. The result: no output whatsoever on the serial console. Something is very broken and there is no clue.
Checking out the version just after my commit 2010-08-20 compiles and seems to boot, but depending on how much debugging messages I choose in "make menuconfig" I get different problems. Sometimes one of my two CPU's will not initialize. Sometimes I just get unexplicable lockups. More debugging messages seems to make it more stable.
Since I believe I tried exactly the same sourcecode as I did successfully use one year ago I suspect a bug in my toolchain. I use gcc 4.5.1 and binutils 2.21. I think I used an older version last year.
Question1: is there any particular version of gcc/binutils that is recommended with coreboot? Any versions one should avoid?
Question2: is there any revision of coreboot after 2010-08-20 that is recommended to work well on amdk8 platforms?
Thanks! /Oskar